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ONLY BE ROMAN
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Giannangeli Pharmacy Rome
Giannangeli Pharmacy is open 24/7 so you won´t have any trouble in finding what you need if you feel sick during your stay in Rome.
Jucci Maria Clotilde Pharmacy Rome
The Jucci Maria Clotilde Pharmacy is located in the centre of Rome and it´s open 24/7 so that anyone who goes there doesn´t have to worry about opening hours.
Farmacia Comunale Rome
There are Farmacia Comunale stores all over Rome and they´re open 24/7, so whichever your problem may be, they can solve it.
Simple Plan in Rome
The beginnings of North American hardcore took place in different areas in the United States. California was one of its centres at the beginning of the 80s with bands such as Blag Flag, leading a whole new scene of hardcore punk. However, little is remembered about the two guys from Washington DC who were childhood friends (and still are today) who went to a Ramones concert with some school friends and after being so shocked from the impressive New York band, dressed with jeans and leather jackets, that had no option but to form their own bands. These two guys were Ian McKaye, who would become the singer of Minor Threat and then member of the famous band Fugazi, and the charismatic Henry Rollins, singer of the incredible Black Flag and then of Rollins Band. Little could these pioneers of hardcore punk have imagined that years later a band like Simple Plan would exist and label themselves ´punk´. A band like Simple Plan contributes to the negative references towards punk. The commercial possibilities of rock, with a good producer, lie in good taste and catchy songs without limits. The DIY spirit has certainly been lost in many aspects around the world. The replacement of the true DIY spirit, ´Do It Yourself´, is perhaps preserved on the internet, where DIY now means ´Download It Yourself´. That´s why Neil Young said not long ago that downloading music on the internet is the new way of making radio. If we look back and review the dial of any radio, whether it´s in Rome or in any other city, we´ll see that advertising...
Helmet in Rome
The origins of Helmet started in 1989 in the city of New York. Despite that the band has experienced many changes, its leader, singer and guitarist Page Hamilton has carried on as the captain of this ship of alternative metal that still makes the headlines with its new fans who are nostalgic of the 90s and who enjoy the best rock of that time. During the band´s existence, despite the change in band members and their split for many years, Helmet has produced seven official albums, an important feat for a band of the alternative global scene. Their first production was the classic ´Strap It On´, from 1990, a long time before the explosion of grunge and the Seattle Scene, before Guns N´ Roses bored everyone to death with their Elton John-esque pretentions with ´Use Your Illlusion´ 1 and 2, much before that the radio waves in the United States tuned into Seattle and bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Smashing Pumpkins became popular. After the edition of ´Nevermind´ by Nirvana in 1991, Helmet had their chance to come out to the world in 1992 with the also classic album ´Meantime´, which brought them instant commercial success. The album is an abrasive mix of metal, grunge, math rock and hardcore, bringing them closer to what was to be, many years later, the nu-metal sound that many bands such as Korn or Limp Bizkit popularized to make money with their terrible sound. To clarify: Helmet was first and much better. ´Unsung´ was the video that would make them famous thanks to MTV. Then, seeing a band of guys...Kapala in Rome
Kapala is one of the most famous Greek restaurants in Rome. They prepare the food to take away and at affordable prices.
‘Il coraggio di Adele’ in Rome
From the 6th until the 18th of March, you can enjoy the theatre play ´Il coraggio di Adele´ at the Piccolo Teatro Eliseo in Rome, a young production written and directed by Giampiero Rappa, starring the beautiful Terese Saponangelo. ´Il coraggio di Adele´ is a thrilling love story set in war time, between a woman and a man that had never seen each other before. At first, the casual couple are forced to live together for a brief period of time in a hut. There, they await the end of the Allied bombings that are trying to save the country. Lucas is injured and ill and Adele decides to help him and take care of him until he gets better, risking her life every day to do so. Adele is a young aristocrat who is looking for her place in the world, feeling let down by love since her boyfriend decided to voluntarily go to war. Lucas comes from a humble family and is chasing his dream of becoming a prestigious photographer together with his colleagues, a certain Linda of whom he talks about sporadically. Between both of them differences and arguments arise due to their different social and ideological position but, at the same time, an inevitable physical attraction appears. One night, while peace reigned inside the precarious hut, Adele and Lucas make love. The next morning, the young man feels fit again from his injuries and is ready to go, despite that Adele tries to stop him in vain. A year after the war has finished, and thanks to fate, both meet again on the terrace of...
Chinese Art at the MACRO Museum of Rome
Europe has an ambiguous relationship with the Eastern world: first, its philosophy and disciplines fascinate us but on the other side, sometimes we look to the East with a suspicious attitude, and are not always able to pay attention to certain events that deserve it. This is the case of contemporary culture and OF the artistic world, which in China is having more and more examples of innovation and experimentation. Also for this reason, the city of Rome has decided to present “(A) Forbidden City. The post-revolution of the new Chinese art, “an important example where you will find the latest trends in contemporary art production in China. The exhibition, which will be open until March 4 at the headquarters of the Museum MACRO Testaccio (Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4) proposes a group of artists selected not only for their talent, but also for belonging to the same parent generation, linked to the post-revolutionary student movements and the ideas and inspirations that emerged from them. Their aesthetic codes and also the formal solutions they find, pay close attention in the media and popular culture to build a new identity and try to recognize it and feel it represented. Thus we find different languages: photography, installation, performance, video art and, of course, painting, which in ancient Chinese tradition has been defined as “thinking in action.” In addition, this exhibition is part of a larger project: the International Biennial of Culture “Vie della Seta” which in its programming, offers a wide variety of events in an attempt to generate an in-depth and multidisciplinary movement in Italy. The stars in the exhibit are...
The Keats and Shelley Museum in Rome
On number 26 of the vibrant Piazza di Spagna there the so called Casina Rossa, a place where calm and serenity rule and where the English poet John Keats spent the last months of his life. Considered one of the greatest British poets of romanticism, the melancholic Keats had a short. Struggling with tuberculosis, he travelled to Rome on medical advice along with the invitation of his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, the English poet married to the writer Mary Shelley. Shelley lived in one of the apartments in Casina Rossa and that´s where Keats went, along with his great friend the painter John Severn. It was November 1820 and Keats, who was 25 years old, spent only three months in that house Despite the beneficial Roman climate, the days in the Taverna della Lepre on Via Condotti in the company of his friends, the sadness due to the distance from his beloved Fanny Brawne and the bad critics towards his poems made him even more depressed. Keats, who had studied surgery, sensed his end was coming and he eventually died in February 1821, in a small room with a view of the Piazza di Spagna. A year later, Shelley also died in Italy, by drowning. Severn decided to continue his days in the capital and ended up being a British consul. The three of them rest in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Severn asked to be buried next to his friend. In the early 1900s, the house was practically in ruins and, thanks to the American poet Robert Underwood Johnson, the Anglo-American Society bought the house and began...
